Camus / Cambos nr. Coleraine
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14291CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: [Parish Church?]
Site Location: Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Coleraine, 45-50 km ENE of Londonderry
Font Notes:
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The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland (1846) reports "the monumental remains of the font" at "Camus, originally Cambos, on the Bann" [The Bann is a river that runs just SE of Coleraine; the reference may refer to an old abbey dedicated to St. Congal believed by some to have existed in this area].
REFERENCES
- The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, adapted to the new Poor-Law, franchise, municipal and ecclesiastical arrangements, and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad an canal communication, as existing in 1844-45 [...], Dublin, London, and Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., 1846, vol. 1: 475 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=9rblf03SdkYC&pg=RA1-PA425&lpg=RA1-PA425&dq=baptismal+Fonts+Ireland&source=bl&ots=tjlG9VBgG0&sig=j31F11YE_kthumcueOp4sEWtarg&hl=en&ei=9pCpSfSgGqbAMpXs_ekC&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPR7,M1] [accessed 28 February 2009]